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Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 273 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America, a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump, McConnell, Fox News, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. There is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: first, Trump...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peter Wehner, a New York Times opinion writer and outspoken Republican and Christian who openly opposes President Trump, and veteran of three Republican administrations, argues that Americans, in their frustration, have come to loathe politics, with disastrous results, and to heal we need to recapture and renew the unique and noble American tradition of improving ourselves through politics"--
"The veteran of three Republican administrations and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co., an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Joy-Ann Reid, the host of MSNBC's AM Joy, assesses the Trump presidency in this urgent and deeply reported analysis of our national crisis.
"With wit and piercing insight, Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presidency. Is Donald Trump running the "longest con" in U.S. history? What will be left of America when he leaves office? Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country's founding principles....
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin: 'Well, doctor, what have we got--a republic or a monarchy?' He replied, 'A republic, if you can keep it.' Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate Michael Tomasky's deeply original examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. 'One of America's...
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The extraordinary account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author of The River of Doubt.
"Crisp, concise and revealing history.... A fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history." —The Washington Post
James Abram...
"Crisp, concise and revealing history.... A fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history." —The Washington Post
James Abram...
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English
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In the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friend's Senate campaign. D'Souza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement center. There he lived among hardened criminals--drug dealers, thieves, gangbangers, rapists, and murderers. Now the bestselling author explains how this experience not only changed his life, but...
88) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 325 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A generational work that, using television, reframes America's identity through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president. In the tradition of great cultural figures like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today, and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera- hogging antihero" merged with America's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 510 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever. In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as...
91) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
92) The second coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition
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English
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By legitimizing bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands reexamination today.
"A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this 'second Klan' largely flourished above the Mason-Dixon Line--its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the continent...
93) Saving grace: speak your truth, stay centered, and learn to coexist with people who drive you nuts
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 205 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The CNN senior political analyst and USA Today columnist offers a path to navigating the toxic division in our culture without compromising our convictions and emotional well-being, based on her experience as a journalist during the Trump era, interviews with experts, and research on what leads people to actually change their minds. For years, Kirsten Powers has been center stage for many of our nation's most searing political and cultural battles...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 505 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will, his ninth collection of reflections on our culture, examining the many ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues. George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street Journal once called him "perhaps the most powerful...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 465 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, shocking new reporting on Donald Trump's unique presidency and its implications. Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency in his own image, shaken foreign...
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Language
English
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests....
99) American Marxism
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism's threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we're fully over that precipice and paying the price. In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why did so many Evangelicals turn out to vote for Donald Trump, a serial philanderer with questionable conservative credentials who seems to defy Christian values with his every utterance? To a reporter like Sarah Posner, who has been covering the religious right for decades, the answer turns out to be far more intuitive than one might think. In this taut and meticulously reported inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious...
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